Author Topic: There is something exciting going on at ILFORD - UPDATE 30.01.13 (Read 69643 times)

astrobeck · « **Reply #100 on:** November 07, 2012, 03:54:14 PM »

Quote from: Francois on November 06, 2012, 10:10:29 PM

This is starting to feel like watching glue set.
You know something interesting is going to come at some point. It's just that the activity is getting to be sooooo slow.

but it's not as slow as watching pitch drop.....
http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment

Alan · « **Reply #101 on:** November 07, 2012, 03:54:55 PM »

its getting exciting now

Alan · « **Reply #102 on:** November 07, 2012, 03:57:43 PM »

Quote from: astrobeck on November 07, 2012, 03:54:14 PM

Quote from: Francois on November 06, 2012, 10:10:29 PM
This is starting to feel like watching glue set.
You know something interesting is going to come at some point. It's just that the activity is getting to be sooooo slow.

but it's not as slow as watching pitch drop.....
http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment

that is like fitting wheels to a tomato !

Francois · « **Reply #103 on:** November 07, 2012, 04:03:35 PM »

I've heard about this experiment too

Watching it is like during the early days of the internet when somebody in Toronto pointed a webcam at a restaurant called Stan's Souvlaki. I've watched it for hours on dialup and never saw anyone go in!

LT · « **Reply #104 on:** November 07, 2012, 04:57:32 PM »

I'm sorry to all. I truly thought I'd be able to spill the beans by now, but there has been a hold up. And, subsequently, this thread has become a force unto itself and I can only think it's all going to be a massive anticlimax

astrobeck · « **Reply #105 on:** November 07, 2012, 05:12:28 PM »

No worries Leon!
It's always fun to have something new come down the pipe, and the guessing has certainly been interesting to read about here.

We will be no less excited when the ball finally drops.

Andrej K · « **Reply #106 on:** November 07, 2012, 06:29:42 PM »

Quote from: Francois on November 07, 2012, 03:50:14 PM

Leon said it wasn't a new product. But when I hinted at a corporate acquisition, he's been more than quiet...
So, my guess is that they're going to buy some company with a round logo that recently ceased production of something...
From memory, Foma recently closed down...

NO, Francois, foma is still running - I think you meant EFKE in Croatia.

tkmedia · « **Reply #107 on:** November 07, 2012, 08:36:41 PM »

efke not Foma, foma actually updated their website! Foma is now producing instant x-ray dental film!

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #108 on:** November 07, 2012, 09:38:31 PM »

Quote from: tkmedia on November 07, 2012, 08:36:41 PM

efke not Foma, foma actually updated their website! Foma is now producing instant x-ray dental film!

I think Foma have wanted to get their teeth into that market for sometime

LT · « **Reply #109 on:** November 07, 2012, 10:13:09 PM »

Quote from: tkmedia on November 07, 2012, 08:36:41 PM

efke not Foma, foma actually updated their website! Foma is now producing instant x-ray dental film!

Would that be the new Molaroid film I've been hearing about....

(I'm here all week)

Francois · « **Reply #110 on:** November 07, 2012, 10:59:48 PM »

Yeah, you're right, it was Efke...

Quote from: Leon on November 07, 2012, 04:57:32 PM

I'm sorry to all. I truly thought I'd be able to spill the beans by now, but there has been a hold up.

Hands up! Put 'em where I can see 'em!

$:-\$

Terry · « **Reply #111 on:** November 08, 2012, 01:57:32 AM »

Leon,

I believe it's spelled 'weak'

mickld · « **Reply #112 on:** November 09, 2012, 12:36:25 AM »

Aha! I came across this thread on APUG this evening about Ilford producing some youtube videos about pinhole photography for schools:

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum162/111995-some-feedback-ilford.html

Sooo....you've been busy making vids with Ilford?

chris_n · « **Reply #113 on:** November 09, 2012, 01:00:14 AM »

they're going to make 4x5 peel apart instant film??? oh god i miss the fuji stuff already...

LT · « **Reply #114 on:** November 09, 2012, 06:44:39 AM »

Quote from: mickld on November 09, 2012, 12:36:25 AM

]Sooo....you've been busy making vids with Ilford?

Nope.

Bastian S. · « **Reply #115 on:** November 09, 2012, 11:56:39 AM »

From what I've heard Ilford plans the following:

1. Release of the Harman Titan Pinhole 8x10
2. Release of two disposable cameras, filled with either HP5+ or XP2+.
3. Release of some more new products in 2013
4. Ilfochrome will stay in production, but it will no longer be available for home-users.

LT · « **Reply #116 on:** November 09, 2012, 12:42:41 PM »

Quote from: Bastian S. on November 09, 2012, 11:56:39 AM

From what I've heard Ilford plans the following:
4. Ilfochrome will stay in production, but it will no longer be available for home-users.

Ilfochrome is made in Switzerland by Paradigm Global Partners LLP and has nothing to do with the Harman technology which makes all the wonderful mono materials etc under the Ilford brand from NW England.

Francois · « **Reply #117 on:** November 09, 2012, 02:10:58 PM »

Woody was chosen as the new Ilford mascot?

This-is-damion · « **Reply #118 on:** November 09, 2012, 04:57:57 PM »

I reckon Leon has won the company just like in Charlie and the Chocolate factory?

mickld · « **Reply #119 on:** November 10, 2012, 12:33:11 AM »

Quote from: Leon on October 27, 2012, 09:46:38 PM

A = πr2

Mulling over your circle hint and the warning of an anti-climax leads me to only one possible conclusion ... Ilford will start shipping a plastic exposure meter with the Titan instead of the rubbish paper one?

Francois · « **Reply #120 on:** November 10, 2012, 03:07:31 PM »

Or their 120 will be shipped in nice plastic containers like Rollei does...

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #121 on:** November 10, 2012, 03:25:11 PM »

Or where Z is the radius and the equals sign can't be found ...

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Pi ZZ A

Mmm.

Francois · « **Reply #122 on:** November 10, 2012, 03:28:50 PM »

Simple fixer recycling service?
Round and round it goes...

Thom Stone · « **Reply #123 on:** November 10, 2012, 05:36:11 PM »

wow this is getting sooo exciting, I don't know about you guys but I'm off to start queuing.... trying to stuff a one man tent and sleeping back into my lowepro as we speak

mickld · « **Reply #124 on:** November 10, 2012, 09:56:43 PM »

@Francois - little 120 tubes actually *would* be exciting. I have about half a dozen and they are invaluable.

SLVR · « **Reply #125 on:** November 23, 2012, 05:12:19 PM »

so how we doin?

Francois · « **Reply #126 on:** November 23, 2012, 07:49:05 PM »

Huh! What!
You just woke me up... I fell asleep after, huh, I can't remember.

I guess that's all that's been going on so far... or maybe I snoozed through the big news

Oh wait... I think Leon said it was a no go.

SLVR · « **Reply #127 on:** November 23, 2012, 07:54:06 PM »

you mean there isnt anything exciting going on at ilford!? boo-urns.

LT · « **Reply #128 on:** November 23, 2012, 08:38:25 PM »

Without giving away too much ... Here are some selected excerpts from a recent communication I had with the big mono coating machine in the north:

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Progress is a bit slow

Quote

we are now re-visiting some of the work already done which will cause further delay

Quote

our dead-lines appear to keep moving back

News will come forth when it is forthcoming :-)

mickld · « **Reply #129 on:** November 23, 2012, 08:41:59 PM »

And it's NOT a new product? Sounds like they are prototyping something.

charles binns · « **Reply #130 on:** November 23, 2012, 10:34:44 PM »

It's a book!

Francois · « **Reply #131 on:** November 23, 2012, 11:22:15 PM »

Ilford sportswear? Leon does talk about a coat-ing machine

Mab · « **Reply #132 on:** November 24, 2012, 08:16:38 AM »

Hmm... slow progress... what's been done by now is total crap.... deadlines... what deadlines?

It must be a new software!!!

charles binns · « **Reply #133 on:** November 24, 2012, 08:39:09 AM »

Ilford are going digital? The forum will be renamed Pixelwasters and we will discuss how many megapixels you can stick in a Nikon? Or we can chat endlessly about histograms!

Heaven!

Francois · « **Reply #134 on:** November 24, 2012, 04:19:26 PM »

Oh yeah! Nothing I like better than talking about using some secret contrast curve and sharpening technique

astrobeck · « **Reply #135 on:** November 24, 2012, 04:32:48 PM »

It's wine!
Ilford has purchased some acreage in southern California and plans to go in the wine making biz..

Francois · « **Reply #136 on:** November 24, 2012, 08:47:45 PM »

Quote from: astrobeck on November 24, 2012, 04:32:48 PM

It's wine!
Ilford has purchased some acreage in southern California and plans to go in the wine making biz..

Just don't talk too loud... The boys' trip to the Leica gallery left them slightly sensitive to light and sound

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #137 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:53:35 AM »

Leon is this what you were talking about? http://www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp?n=154

Late Developer · « **Reply #138 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:54:46 PM »

Quote from: Urban Hafner on December 04, 2012, 11:53:35 AM

Leon is this what you were talking about? http://www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp?n=154

Even if it isn't, it looks like a great little piece of kit. Hopefully, it'll sell by the bucket-load and get B&W film mainstream popular again. Why 27 exposures, though? Size / volume constraints? Price-driven?

Francois · « **Reply #139 on:** December 04, 2012, 03:11:12 PM »

It's just that most disposables I've seen were 27 exposures.

But since he was talking about a coating machine, I'm thinking about the re-introduction of direct positive paper which was pulled out of production temporarily due to technical difficulties.

LT · « **Reply #140 on:** December 04, 2012, 03:50:29 PM »

Quote from: Urban Hafner on December 04, 2012, 11:53:35 AM

Leon is this what you were talking about? http://www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp?n=154

No.

LT · « **Reply #141 on:** December 04, 2012, 03:51:59 PM »

Quote from: Francois on December 04, 2012, 03:11:12 PM

But since he was talking about a coating machine, .

It has nothing to do with a coating machine, other than the fact that ilford own a coating machine.

DonkeyDave · « **Reply #142 on:** December 04, 2012, 05:33:19 PM »

Are they recycling old fixer, using it to coat underpants and socks, for the silver component to inhibit growth of odour causing microbes?

Do we want our feet and nether regions to smell of old fixer anyway? Come to think of it mine probably do already...

charles binns · « **Reply #143 on:** December 04, 2012, 05:49:28 PM »

Did Ilford get Kate Middleton pregnant?

Chris A Fraser · « **Reply #144 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:02:25 PM »

I love that this thread is 3 pages long

sapata · « **Reply #145 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:40:48 PM »

Quote from: charles binns on December 04, 2012, 05:49:28 PM

Did Ilford get Kate Middleton pregnant?

Imagine! they would need a darkroom for the labour...

charles binns · « **Reply #146 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:45:58 PM »

Quote from: sapata on December 04, 2012, 06:40:48 PM

Quote from: charles binns on December 04, 2012, 05:49:28 PM
Did Ilford get Kate Middleton pregnant?
Imagine! they would need a darkroom for the labour...

Looks like they've already used the dark room!! Fnaar Fnaar!

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #147 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:53:10 PM »

Argh! I've come here for some sanity away from speculation/hype.

Is there no escape?

However I'd forgotten this little teaser.

Mike

astrobeck · « **Reply #148 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:56:29 PM »

They're making instant coffee so I can brew Ilford caffenol!

This just keeps going on and on doesn't it???!!!

Francois · « **Reply #149 on:** December 04, 2012, 08:50:52 PM »

Just to annoy Leon (you know how I love doing that), lets just suppose Ilford is joining forces with some company to produce under the Ilford brand a new 35mm full frame digital back that fits any standard 35mm body

http://www.re35.net/

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